Tag Archives: Texas

Remembering

Posted on May 25, 2008 | Comments Off on Remembering

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Austin, Texas. Southwestern architecture in a flag theme for the weekend, inspired by Instapundit.

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Slaughter at Goliad

Posted on May 9, 2008 | Comments Off on Slaughter at Goliad

Here’s a book I want to read: "Slaughter at Goliad: The Mexican Massacre of 400 Texas Volunteers." JD at Brazosmouth says it breaks no new ground on the 1836 travesty but still is a good ‘un. We drive through Goliad, and past the 1936 1938 memorial (also their burying ground) to Fannin and his murdered men, every year on the way to the beach and back again. Sometimes we stop and read the historical marker. The atrocity is not well known outside of Texas, and, for that matter, not even inside Texas these days, but this book may help remedy that. I hope so. They deserve to be remembered.

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Today’s pretty picture

Posted on May 5, 2008 | Comments Off on Today’s pretty picture

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Easily the most colorful historic building in Austin, the 1886 Driskill Hotel was the namesake project of a cattleman for other cattlemen. Texas being short of cattlemen these days, the Driskill is for everybody willing to spend up to $500 plus a night to stay in a place with some character, despite smallish rooms.

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USS Nimitz

Posted on April 29, 2008 | Comments Off on USS Nimitz

The carrier was named for World War II leader Chester Nimitz, of the Hill Country town of Fredericksburg. But the crew consider the ship’s name to be an acronym for Never Imagined Myself In This Zoo. More in a good video not to miss.

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Our tax burden

Posted on April 15, 2008 | Comments Off on Our tax burden

For the feds it was 12.72 percent. For state and local, via real estate and estimated sales taxes, it was almost 10 percent. That’s roughly what some others pay in state income taxes, which pols here like to crow that we don’t have. But they do find ways to make up for it. Sadly, we will not be getting a federal refund this year. But all-in-all, I think we’re getting off light.

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Absolut apologizes

Posted on April 9, 2008 | Comments Off on Absolut apologizes

Sure. You bet. But what a hoot. Like I said, they figured a way to lower market share. It’s working.

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Mount Carmel, with more sex

Posted on April 6, 2008 | Comments Off on Mount Carmel, with more sex

That was what I thought when I first heard of the schismatic Morman religious cult that somehow has worked polygamy with underage girls into their liturgy. Mount Carmel (named for the Biblical place) was Vernon Wayne Howell’s little fundamentalist Christian religious operation near Waco. He also liked polygamy with underaged girls–but only for him, not for his followers. Then I saw the photo of the polygamist’s place, on a former exotic game ranch, and immediately mistook it for this one. But it isn’t. Different county, too. Similar architecture, though. I wonder if the same outfit built both?

UPDATE: Wow. Just wow. You have to feel sorry for the kids, though. Separated now, for sure.

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